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UK-REBOA on Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

RebelEM

Military practice guidelines recommend REBOA for profound shock (SBP <90mmHg) 1 and ACEP along with the American College of surgeons recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.

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Triage in major incidents: development and external validation of novel machine learning-derived primary and secondary triage tools

Emergency Medicine Journal

Methods Adults (16+ years) from the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) registry (January 2008–December 2017) served as surrogates for MI victims, with P1 patients identified using predefined criteria. The best existing tool was the BCD Triage Sieve (sensitivity 68.2%, area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) 0.688).

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.

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UK-REBOA Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

Critical Care Now

Military practice guidelines, along with ACEP and the American College of Surgeons, recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

Emergency Medicine research was and still is tremendously underfunded,” says John E. Prior to WVU, Dr. Prescott served as a military emergency physician at Brooke Army Medical Center, TX and Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty, NC. Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We million in federal grants. “I

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

From the early 1950s to the early 1960s, validation by researchers such as James O. Pask) into drowning and funded early Cold War research into protection from Nerve Gas, that sprouted the saving of thousands of lives. Dartmouth , Nova Scotia **Interesting report on life jackets and Pask's research.